Friday, April 04, 2014

They spent how much to provide health insurance to a "net" 1 million people?

We may never know. But on the surface it seems obvious our tax dollars would have been better spent by simply giving money away to people who simply declared their health insurance was too expensive.

But really, Nancy Pelosi's statement was a historic admission (We had to pass the bill to see what was in it) that she was fighting hard for something she herself didn't understand, but she had every confidence regulators and bureaucratic interpreters would tell her in time what she'd done. This is how we make laws now.

Her comments alarmed congressional Republicans but inspired Democrats, who for the next three years would carry on like blithering idiots making believe they'd read the bill and understood its implications

It seems like burger flippers at McDonalds have a better understanding of what is expected of them than members of Congress.

The White House, on the other hand, seems to have understood what the bill would do, and lied in a way so specific it showed they knew exactly what to spin and how. "If you like your health-care plan, you can keep your health-care plan, period." "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, period." That of course was the president, misrepresenting the facts of his signature legislative effort. That was historic, too. If you liked your doctor, your plan, your network, your coverage, your deductible you could not keep it. Your existing policy had to pass muster with the administration, which would fight to the death to ensure that 60-year-old women have pediatric dental coverage.

They spent how much to provide health insurance to a "net" 1 million people?

We may never know. But on the surface it seems obvious our tax dollars would have been better spent by simply giving money away to people who simply declared their health insurance was too expensive.

But really, Nancy Pelosi's statement was a historic admission (We had to pass the bill to see what was in it) that she was fighting hard for something she herself didn't understand, but she had every confidence regulators and bureaucratic interpreters would tell her in time what she'd done. This is how we make laws now.

Her comments alarmed congressional Republicans but inspired Democrats, who for the next three years would carry on like blithering idiots making believe they'd read the bill and understood its implications

It seems like burger flippers at McDonalds have a better understanding of what is expected of them than members of Congress.

The White House, on the other hand, seems to have understood what the bill would do, and lied in a way so specific it showed they knew exactly what to spin and how. "If you like your health-care plan, you can keep your health-care plan, period." "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, period." That of course was the president, misrepresenting the facts of his signature legislative effort. That was historic, too. If you liked your doctor, your plan, your network, your coverage, your deductible you could not keep it. Your existing policy had to pass muster with the administration, which would fight to the death to ensure that 60-year-old women have pediatric dental coverage.